Profile of the Italian design office Gianluca Milesi Architecture, which explores the multi-disciplinary relationships between architecture and digital environment, through buildings, interiors and graphics. More

X-TERN Architects + Urban Planners, based in Merano, Italy, was founded in 2001 by Salvo Di Silvestro, Marco de fonzo and Giorgio Gottardi in order to research the fields of architecture, urban planning, graphic design, web design and visual communication. More

Projects by Italian architects

"The new Roman gallery is both highly representative and technologically advanced. Adapting to the various installations’ requirement, it is highly customizable", says Officina Del Disegno Srl on Gagosian Gallery. More

"The commercial block, as other nearby public buildings, is facing a new main public “piazza” and the city park, for this reason we paid particular attention to making a very special relationship between the building and its context.", says Spacelab Architects on Food Container - Remixed. More

"The inspiration came from observing the harp as a sensual and magical music instrument, so large harps in Corian from 6 to 10 metres long and 3 metres high, were designed to accommodate items of the Runtal collections on rotating black panels. The composition of harps has been made simpler thanks to the use of light ashlars with sophisticated concealed steel closures.", says Giancarlo Zema Design Group on Harps. More

"The contest project includes a symbolic and extreme building in the urban scenery of the seaside town characterised by undifferentiated buildings mostly composed of regular blocks of industrial origin.", says HOV on Civic centre for Rosignano. More

"The architects were asked to project a complex of commercial areas, public and media spaces. The place is on old commercial area outside the city area, which is going to be demolished.", says BODA’ (Federico Bertoli, Daniel Antonini) + Paolo Casalis on Citta’ Collina (City Hill). More

"The client’s requirement was two-fold: preservation and enhancement of a historical building and; the new function of this building as an exhibition space and cultural center." says MAP studio on Renovation of the “Torre di Porta Nuova” as a cultural centre. More

"The canopy belongs to a private courtyard next to the central square of the town, and replaces an old structure; the public function of the place, and the client's will to renew were important inputs for the project." says Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto on The White Kite. More

"The requirement for the project was to build a 6-classroom kindergarten, to be completed in two phases, giving prominence to the existing natural landscape, to the environmental impact, to sustainable building solutions and to pedagogical issues." says Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto on The Rainbow School. More

"The analytical study of the link between actions and time, led to the possibility of creating a wide continuous open space which is virtually divided in two poles: the first one dedicated to quick services and customers." says Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto on Coffee Bar: S=f(t) More

"The main concept was to give a different interpretation to a static space, starting from the negation of its spatiality, regular and centrally oriented, by creating planes and volumes like if they were unfolded from a corner of the perimeter." says Cibelli + Guadagno Architetti Associati on Two levels apartment. More

"The aim of the project was to create a compact building with a high level of recognition. The building as corporate identity of the enterprise; contemporary and representative of the company." says monovolume architecture + design on Rotho Blaas. More

"The exhibition "ARRIVARE A VENEZIA" is generated by the characteristics of exposed materials: - the four panels mounted on rigid supports for the new multi garage project; - and the three panels for the presentation of each team selected for Final Phase of the contest." says MAP studio on Project of the exhibition Arrivare a Venezia More

"The house is made of two blocks, rotated around the central staircase/lift system, in this way the house can easily be divided in two independent apartments." says Studio Architettura Massimo Nodari on Bellicini House More

"This exhibition design directly relates to the nature of the exhibits: the complete set of seventy-nine original engravings by A. Specchi after drawings by C. Fontana as integral parts of the book that was printed in 1694. " says MAP studio on Exhibition Ill tempio Vaticano. Carlo Fontana 1694. More

The client desired to have a space that leaned out on the principal road despite the place being extremely small. It was necessary to give maximum openings toward the outside to get visibility and light." says AA - architetti associati s.r.l. on C & F Financings. More

"The project envisages the creation of a structure for students with services and with 20 beds, having type single or double room, both with private bathroom." says Tecno Adler on Students House in L'Aquila. More

"The client’s requirement for this project was a holiday house in town because it was so near the sea that going out of the palace you can take a bath from a magnificent cliff." says Napolicreativa on Muto’s House. More

"The clients wanted to create a space that would meet international standards, in terms of the overall ambience. The clients were open to innovative solutions to achieve this goal.." says AA - architetti associati s.r.l. on Art Restaurant. More

"The dynamic world of comics, alive with colors and play, is reflected in the lit-up ceilings whose precise organization pace the visitor's path with changing intensity and tones." says Pietro Carlo Pellegrini on National Museum of Comics. More

"The building is situated on a slightly hilly slope in the town of Segromigno in Monte. The planimetric articulation and the design of the side views should be intentionally simple." says Pietro Carlo Pellegrini on Palex. More

"The Museum is immersed in the mountainous green countryside, yet with a view over the sites of the massacre that it commemorates." says Pietro Carlo Pellegrini on Historical Museum of Resistance. More

"The building for the cult of the spiritual life is planned to offer a place to stay and pray, before the approach to the Sanctuary." says Pietro Carlo Pellegrini on Guest house for the pilgrims at the S. Gemma Monastery. More

"This project represent an ideal effort to transform an anonymous and low-cost sporting center in an innovative place, a kind of urban oasis." says DA-A ARCHITETTI on Outdoor swimming pool in Origgio. More

"The project for the lakeside and for the renovation of public places of Lesa on lake Maggiore has basically two purposes: a closer relation between the town centre and the lake and restore a richness of uses for the public spaces close to the water." says DA-A ARCHITETTI on Lakeside of Lesa. More

"At the base of the restoration project rests an attentive analysis of the constructive fabric of the Cathedral, during the phases of architectonic surveying and sampling." says Pietro Carlo Pellegrini on Cathedral Museum. More

"The project was the winning proposal in an international competition. The town of Collegno represents one of those cases in which the architectural disorder of an industrial suburb, built rather hurriedly in the 1960s, now demands the intervention of urban designers able to restore order to time, history and its impetuous architecture." says DA-A ARCHITETTI on Public spaces. More

"The light bathes the wall, but reaches the moment and the place in which, going beyond the curve, it takes a tangent, deciding what will be lit and what will be dark. And this movement suggests the indefinite, mutability, shading, ineffability." says Antonino Cardillo on House of Convexities. More

"The bar is characterised by a long bar counter made of Corian, which literally breaks the physical limitations of the interior, while becoming an illuminated display lantern on the street side, and an outdoor smoking corner when stepping out into the courtyard." says Waltritsch A+U on bar Qubik. More

"The architecture of the building, an old mechanical half of the '900', with its precise identity inspired concept based on a working model for open space." says Roberto Marconi architetto on UFFICI. More

"The apartment was designed to provide sober and elegant spaces with special regard to the existing layout configuration which couldn't be missed out." says Massimo Giovannetti Architecture on NOS Private Residence. More

"The most important thing is to make a spa that haven't a "kitsch" image and that can show a lot of images that we have in our collective memories but without evident post-modern forms.” says Alessio Patalocco on Conti Day Spa.
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"The concept starts from a desire: to let the customer experience become a 'total experience'. A space able to expand the customer senses by pushing them to move, to feel forms, shapes and materials." says Marco Rucci architect (1AX network) on EverGreen Casual Food Bar. More

"In the internal space between the two walls an ample inter-space comprises the accessory area (stairs to the bedroom, bathroom, boiler, storerooms, cupboard) serving the occupants of the house and contributing to stabilising the temperature of the large central hall." says Antonino Cardillo on Ellipse 1501 House. More

"The project, born from a dialogue between a rectangular plan from whose perimeter new walls are inserted and central organic forms was built using over 3000 etched glass bricks. The new architecture has become a body of light inside a casing of horizontal lines, generating distributive flows without static divisions and has great functional flexibility." says Lapo Ruffi Architetto on K Office. More

"The space dimension of this almost un-contaminated landscape recalls ancient conflicts, provoking attitudes which contrast with some key factors such us the horizontal line, the nature, the sea, historic traces, elements that have maintained their force and integrity in spite of last interventions: the creation of an industrial zone and the construction of a highway." says altro_studio on Holiday living unit in Sentina. More

"The combination of reciprocal sensory interferences becomes a compositional tool: sight, hearing and touch take turns in a succession of indefinite and simultaneous spatial perceptions." says altro_studio on Architecture pierced. More

"The living and sleeping quarters are separated by a floor of air, which becomes an intermediate entertainment space, a place from which to look out over the landscape as if watching a film or a tribune (the staircase) from which to watch the polo games on the field in front of the house." says w office | west architecture workroom on House for a Polo Lover. More

"My steps start to become heavy, after two hours walk I decide to take a rest. Around me the landscape is desolated, sand dunes move following the direction of the wind pushing them." says altro_studio on The Invisible House. More

'The strength of the staircase is doubled by a bronzed mirror wall, 23 meters long for a total of 125 square meters, which amplified the space and contains useful hidden wardrobes for the shop...' Says Giovanni D'Ambrosio, on the design of BIASA Boutique and Art Gallery. More

'The intervention is modelled on the landscape via the "four-dimensionality" of the perspective foreshortening and the breaking down of the corner... ' Says Matrixassociati, on the design of Services Centre. More

'The intervention, impelled by strong client love to places of infancy and of adolescence, aims at recovering the use of building and sets out to preserve both the architectonic identity and the relation with the surrounding space.' Says Gaetano Gianclaudio Caponio + Partner, on the design of A past testimony. More

'The structure is conceived composed by three parallel layers perforated depending the internal fluxes (and the way they connect to the external ones) and the needed amount of light ' Says emmestudio martinelli architects', on the design of callosity border thickening. More

"The idea was to construct a building with an 'inverse' guideline. Instead of being oriented towards the city, looking outward from the hill; the house is completely turned towards the hill", says Giovanni Vaccarini, designer of the C+V house. More

Responding to its context and establishing a dialogue with it leads the X-07 Wolf apartment building to adopt contrasting vocabularies on its northern and southern facades -- an aspect that emerges characteristic of its design. More

The design for the Gozzano Cemetery Extension focuses on not just the functional aspects of the brief, but also its symbolic and emotional facets, creatively exploring the landscape and elements within it to arrive at a balanced architectural composition. More

"The terrorist attack on Bali, on 12th October 2001, destroyed the original Caruso Maccaroni Club that we had designed. That first project spoke of modernity in the local tradition; the new project speaks of a comfortable and non-aggressive space -- a space which will give people the 'joie de vivre' in a country full of sad memories." Says the designer Giovanni D'Ambrosio. More

Italian architect Massimo Iosa Ghini splits the external facade into varied elements and layers, spelling out the functional profile of the building and adding in its wake, not just visual interest to the structure but commercial value as well. More

The glorious Maserati sports car plays muse to architect Massimo Iosa Ghini in his design to document and house it, creating in its wake a museum that is both -- iconic and contextual -- in a single stroke. More